Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-21
SAN FRANCISCO AND VICINITY.

There were four new cases of diphtheria
reported to the Health Officer yesterday
morning.
The Workmen of Alameda county are
making arrangements for memorial serv-
ices for Father Upchurch, the founder of
the Order.
The American party of Oakland will
place full ticket in the field at the ensu-
ing city election. The Convention will be
held early in February.
Health Officer Buck, of Oakland, will
notify all physicians ofan ordinance which
requires them to report all contagious dis
eases they are called to attend.
John Kearney, who shot and seriously
injured John Kerry on the 18th ult, was
held to answer a charge of assault to mur-
der in $4,000 bail by Police Judge Lawler.
Some boys found several giant powder
cartridges tied up in silk handkerchief,
near the wharf at the foot of Franklin
street, Oakland. Where the cartridges came
from is a mystery.
Alexander White, known among Pacific
coast sports as Young Whistler, the
Wrestler" is locked up at the city prison,
and will be turned over to the Boys and
Girls Aid Society, for reformation,
Suit has been comm eDced in the Supe-
rior Court by Annie Debecke against the
United Friends of the Pacific, in which
she seeks to recover $1,000, the amount of
a benefit certificate in favor of Thomas j.
Winn.
The trial of Mrs. Josephine Higgins,
charged with murder in stabbing and kill
ing her husband in Tehama-street lodg-
ing house on September 14th, was COM
menced in Judge Murphy's Court W Wednes-
day morning.
A movement is on foot among labor
organizations to memoriaiize the Legis-
lature to withhold any appropriation for
the Labor Bureau, they having failed to
to secure the appointment of a working
man as Commissioner.
At meeting of the Newsboys' Union,
on Tuesday evening, it was decided to de-
mand of the managers OF the Bulletin that
the paper be furnished them at the rate of
two copies for five cents, instead of the
present rate of five cents copy, or three
copies for ten cents.
The will of Dr. John Scott has been ad-
mitted to probate, and Judge Coffey has
appointed Mary Scott, Andrew J Ralston
and Charles A. Laton executrix and ex-
ecutors thereof. The estate consists of real
estate valued at $4,000 and S17 800 worth
of personal property.
The friends of David p Mish, who met
his death at the hands of Dr. Mcdonald
about year ago, have erected white
marble obellsk to his memory in the Jew
ish cemetery. The dedication took place
yesterday afternoon, in accordance with
the customs of the Hebrew religion.
While unloading some cases supposed to
contain coal oil from the Idaho at Harris
burg, Alaska, the slings broke. The cases
burst upon deck, aud their contents, in
lieu of being oil, were found TO be whisky.
Under the law governing the liquor traffic
in Alaska the Idaho is liable to seizure.
The Steamship Stevedores' Protective
Unior. met Wednesday evening at Irish
American Hall A report was received
from the Greenwich Dock Company stating
that the company had complied with The
requests of the union, and that the rela-
tions between the union and all steamship
men were harmonious.
An election is to be held in Oakland on
Monday, March 7th, for the selection of II
Mayor, City Clerk and Treasurer, City AS
SCISSOR, seven members of the City Council,
to be elected one from each ward Board
of Education, consisting Of seven men,
bers, one from each ward and five Free
Library Trustees from the city at large.
The term of the Mayor is for one year, and
of all other officers two years.
series of baseball games has been ar
ranged between the visiting Louisvilles and
a picked nine, composed strictly of Cali
fornia players, the series to be the best two
out of three for the gate receipts. AS the
Lonisvilles are culed from the crack leath-
er-chasers produced by the East, the games
ought to prove pretty fair test of the re-
spective merits of both sides of the mount
aims. The California nine has already been
selected, as follows: Carroll, cetcher
Morris, pitcher Sweeney, first base; Fo-
garty. second base; Denny, third base !;
Cahill, shor.stop Taylor, left field ; Fisher,
center field; Brown, right field. The first
game will be played next Sunday, at Ala
media, and the second two weeks later at
Central Park.